Facebook will still push HTML5 innovation, but stripping it out to speed up the Facebook for iOS app has been very successful. Half of its iOS users updated their apps in just four days, and its App Store review average has risen from 1.5 stars to 4 stars in just three weeks since relaunch, Facebook told reporters at its headquarters today.

Today, native apps still rule over “write-once-use-everywhere” solutions. Even on the desktop, web apps just aren’t fully there yet.